Acting
Don Beddoe
EN cinema · 174 credits
Born
1 July 1903
Died
19 January 1991 (aged 87)
Birthplace
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as Donald Beddoe · Donald Theophilus Beddoe · Donald T. Beddoe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald T. Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with bachelor's and master's degrees and taught English for three years. After a decade of stage work and bit parts in films, Beddoe began more prominent film roles in the late 1930s. He was usually cast as fast-talking reporters and the like. His commercial acting career was put on hold when he served in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, in which he performed in the Air Force play, Winged Victory. Beddoe subsequently returned to films playing small character roles. He occasionally appeared in comedy shorts playing comic foils, such as in the Three Stooges shorts Three Sappy People and You Nazty Spy! Beddoe appeared in more than 250 films. Beddoe portrayed Mr. Tolliver in the ABC comedy The Second Hundred Years, and he was in the cast of Life with Father on CBS. He also was seen in dozens of television programs. In the 1950s and 1960s, he made four appearances on Have Gun – Will Travel, three times on Lawman, three on Maverick, three on Laramie, three on Lassie, and three on Perry Mason including in the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He was also cast on the western aviation series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant, on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, The Alaskans, with Roger Moore, on the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, with Brian Kelly and John Ashley, and on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He appeared too on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and on the ABC drama series, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly. He guest starred as well on David Janssen's first series, the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He also made appearances on episodes of The Lone Ranger in the '50s. Beddoe played the outlaw Black Bart in the 1954 episode "Black Bart The PO8" of the western anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Black Bart is cast as a debonair poetry-writing former school teacher who turns to stagecoach robbery after his first holdup, a prank, pays handsomely. Wells Fargo detectives track him down through a laundry mark. He was also pursued with a romantic interest by his landlady, Winona Webb (Helen Brown). Black Bart spent six years in the penitentiary, never to be heard from again. During the 1970–1971 season of ABC's Nanny and the Professor, Beddoe made four appearances, three as Mr. Thatcher. In 1984, he made his final television appearance as Kris in NBC's Highway to Heaven starring Michael Landon and Victor French.
Known for
Filmography
A Bewitched Christmas
as Santa Claus
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self (archive footage)
Nickel Mountain
as Doc Cathey
Our Town
as Constable Warren
How Do I Love Thee?
as Dr. Littlefield
Generation
as Gilbert
The Impossible Years
as Elliot Fish
Texas Across the River
as Mr. Naylor
A Very Special Favor
as Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
Kilroy
as Commissioner
Papa's Delicate Condition
as Mayor Ghio's assistant
Saintly Sinners
as Father Dan Sheridan
Boy Who Caught a Crook
as Colonel
Warlock
as Doctor Wagner
Pillow Talk
as Mr. Walters
Bullwhip
as Judge Carr
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
as David Cooper
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
as Mayor Sam Pelley
The Joker is Wild
as Heckler at Copacabana (uncredited)
Invitation to a Gunfighter
as McKeever
Behind the High Wall
as Todd 'Mac' MacGregor
The Killer Is Loose
as Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
The Rawhide Years
as Frank Porter
The Night of the Hunter
as Walt Spoon
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Johnson
The Miracle on 34th Street
as Mr. Macy
Loophole
as Herman Tate
Jubilee Trail
as Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
The Steel Cage
as Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"
River of No Return
as Ben (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
as Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
Wyoming Renegades
as Banker Horace Warren
A Fair Chance
1954
A Fair Chance
as Mr. Wilson
The Band Wagon
as Producer (uncredited)
The System
as Jerry Allen
Cow Country
as Joe Davis
The Clown
as Gallagher
Don't Bother to Knock
as Mr. Ballew
The Narrow Margin
as Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
Hoodlum Empire
as Sen. Blake
Scandal Sheet
as Pete (uncredited)
Carson City
as Charles Crocker
Stop, You're Killing Me
as Clyde Post
The Iron Mistress
as Dr. Cuny
Blue Canadian Rockies
as Cyrus Higbee
Carrie
as Mr. Goodman
Room for One More
as Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
The Company She Keeps
as Jamieson
The Enforcer
as Thomas O'Hara
The Unknown Man
as Fingerprint Man
Gasoline Alley
as Walt Wallet
Corky of Gasoline Alley
as Walt Wallet
Man in the Saddle
as Love Bidwell (uncredited)
Rodeo King and the Senorita
as Mr. Richards
Behave Yourself!
as Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)
The Racket
as Mitchell (uncredited)
Woman in Hiding
as Fat Salesman
The Great Rupert
as Mr. Haggerty
Beyond the Purple Hills
as Amos Rayburn
Emergency Wedding
as Forbish - Floorwalker
Caged
as Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)
Young Daniel Boone
as Charlie Bryan
Blades of the Musketeers
as King Louis XIII
Cyrano de Bergerac
as The Meddler
Gun Crazy
as Chicago Man (uncredited)
Tarnished
as Curtis Jellison
Southside 1-1000
as Slade
Flame of Youth
as George Briggs
The Lady Gambles
as Mr. Dennis Sutherland
Hideout
as Dr. Hamilton Gibbs
Dancing in the Dark
as Barney Bassett
The Crime Doctor's Diary
as Phillip Bellem
Easy Living
as Jaeger
Once More, My Darling
as Judge Fraser
Bride of Vengeance
as Councillor
Black Bart
as J.T. Hall
If You Knew Susie
as Editor (uncredited)
Another Part of the Forest
as Penniman
They Won't Believe Me
as Thomason
Buck Privates Come Home
as Mr. Roberts (State Department)
Welcome Stranger
as Mort Elkins
Blaze of Noon
as Mr. Fell
California
as Stark (uncredited)
Behind Green Lights
as Yager (uncredited)
O.S.S.
as Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse
The Notorious Lone Wolf
as Stonley
Calcutta
as Jack Collins (uncredited)
The Well Groomed Bride
as Mr. Beatley
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Mr. Cameron
Crime, Inc.
as Deputy District Attorney Dixon
Getting Gertie's Garter
as Clancy
Midnight Manhunt
as Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley
Winged Victory
as Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)
Power of the Press
as Pringle (uncredited)
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as J. Gilbert Brampton
The Talk of the Town
as Police Chief
Not a Ladies' Man
as 'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson
Meet the Stewarts
as Taxi Driver
Junior Army
as Saginaw Jake
Smith of Minnesota
as Lew Smith
Sabotage Squad
as Police Inspector Hanley
Lucky Legs
as Ned McLane
The Face Behind the Mask
as Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
as Sheriff Haggerty
Unholy Partners
as Mike Reynolds
The Big Boss
as Cliff Randall
Sweetheart of the Campus
as Sheriff Denby
Texas
as Sheriff
Harvard Here I Come
as Hypo McGonigle
The Blonde from Singapore
as Sgt. Burns
Under Age
as Albert Ward
Honolulu Lu
as Bennie Blanchard
They Dare Not Love
as Second Sailor
Two Latins from Manhattan
as Don Barlow
She Knew All the Answers
as Barber
Sing for Your Supper
as Wing Boley
Black Eyes and Blues
1941
Black Eyes and Blues
as Phineas Q. Potts
The Secret Seven
as Maj. Blaine
Blondie on a Budget
as Marvin Williams
The Phantom Submarine
as Bartlett
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Frederick Ross
The Spook Speaks
as Newlywed husband
Girls of the Road
as Sheriff
The Lone Wolf Strikes
as Inspector Conroy
Island of Doomed Men
as Brand
Men Without Souls
as Warden Schafer
You Nazty Spy!
as Mr. Amscray (uncredited)
This Thing Called Love
as Tom Howland
The Man from Tumbleweeds
as Governor Dawson
Before I Hang
as Capt. McGraw
Manhattan Heartbeat
as Preston
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
as Big Joe Brady
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
as Police Doctor
The Heckler
as Green Sox Manager (uncredited)
Texas Stagecoach
as Tug Wilson
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
as Process Server
West of Abilene
as Forsyth
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
Beyond the Sacramento
as Warden McKay
Cafe Hostess
as Customer
Escape to Glory
as Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson
Convicted Woman
as Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)
Glamour for Sale
as Frank Regan
Mandrake the Magician
as Frank Raymond
Military Academy
as Marty Lewis
Blondie Meets the Boss
as Marvin Williams
The Man They Could Not Hang
as Lieutenant Shane
Golden Boy
as Borneo
Flying G-Men
as W. S. Hamilton
The Awful Goof
as Drunk (uncredited)
Three Sappy People
as Rumsford
Scandal Sheet
as Chick Keller
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
as Police Inspector Thomas
Those High Grey Walls
as Jockey
Outside These Walls
as Dinky
Beware Spooks!
as Nick Bruno
Mandrake the Magician
as Frank Raymond
Union Pacific
as Reporter (uncredited)
Konga, the Wild Stallion
as Fred Martin
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Detective Deever
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)
Coast Guard
as Bartender (uncredited)
Missing Daughters
as Al Farrow
My Son Is Guilty
as Duke Mason
Romance of the Redwoods
as Forbes
There's That Woman Again
as Johnson